Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya was born in London, England, and was cited as one of BAFTA's 2011 Brits to Watch. He is a celebrated stage actor having won the 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Editor's Award for Shooting Star and the 2010 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performance as a boxer in the play Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Kaluuya's theater credits include Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse and A Season in the Congo opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor at the Young Vic.

In 2015, he appeared in Denis Villeneuve's drug-war thriller Sicario for Lionsgate, which also starred Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.  Kaluuya came to prominence when portraying wannabe gangster Posh Kenneth on the British teen drama Skins, the BAFTA Award-winning show for which he was also a member of the writing team. Other film credits include Kick-Ass 2, Eran Creevy's Welcome to the Punch and Working Title's Johnny English Reborn opposite Rowan Atkinson. He can be seen opposite Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Forest Whitaker and Lupita Nyong'o in Marvel's Captain America: Civil War spinoff, Black Panther.

On television, he will next be seen starring in Danny Boyle's satirical police miniseries Babylon for Channel 4. Other notable television credits include Black Mirror also for Channel 4 and Jack Thorne's The Fades and Psychoville for the BBC.

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